Attitudes Towards Europe Beyond Euroscepticism

Introduction.- 1. Beyond Euroscepticism: A multidimensional perspective.- 1.1. Citizens and their feelings towards political institutions: a crucial bond.- 1.2. Defining attitudes towards Europe.- 1.3. From Euroscepticism to support for Europe: a multidimensional perspective.- 1.4 Dimensions of Support for Europe: testing the Eastonian framework.- 1.5. Findings and conclusions.- 2. Sources of opposition towards Europe: issue saliency and specific support.- 2.1. Explanatory factors of support and opposition towards Europe.- 2.2. Focusing on specific support for Europe.- 2.3. Issue saliency and specific support: hypotheses of research.- 2.4. Data and Method.- 2.5. Evidences.- 2.6. Remarks adn Theoretical implications.- 3. The impact of "external" shocks on attitudes towards Europe: the current economic crisis.- 3.1. Does the crisis affect support? An open question.- 3.2. Issue saliency, pessimism, and opposition: assessing the relationship.- 3.3. Concern for the economic crisis and opposition towards Europe: testing the relationship.- 3.4. Concern for the economic crisis and voting in European Parliamentary Elections.- Conclusion

Danilo Di Mauro is post-doc fellow at the University Unitelma Sapienza in Rome, Italy, and Research Assistant at the European University Institute (EUI) where he was Marie Curie Research Fellow.

Vincenzo Memoli is Assistant Professor at the University of Catania, Italy. His main research interests include democracy, public attitudes and public opinion.